Friday, June 26, 2009
Man caused global warming scam!!!!
Hopefully when the public sees this for what it is, the senate will kill it. Man caused global warming is a theory, not a fact. No matter what we do, the rest of the world will not follow. This old earth has warmed and cooled for millions of years. How arrogant to think that we could change the climate with vehicles, good grief. There is a petition signed by 32,000 scientists that doubt.http://www.petitionproject.org/
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The teen brain
Teen risk-taking: blame immature frontal lobes; one of the last areas of the brain to develop fully.
Issue Date: May 18, 2003
Science
The teen brain
Surprise: It grows long past childhood. So chalk up some of that baffling behavior to neurobiology, not hormones.
By Tim Wendel
Until scientists began to employ MRI imaging a few years ago, the teenage brain was thought to be largely finished. After all, brain size usually doesn't change that much after childhood. Many assumed it only required fine-tuning in preparation for adulthood.
"Now we're finding out how wrong we were," says Richard Restak, a neuropsychiatrist and author of "The Secret Life of the Brain". "The teenage brain is a work in progress that we're only beginning to understand."
From the thickening and then thinning of gray matter to the development of the all-important frontal lobes, the brain undergoes dramatic change during adolescence. What parents once blamed on hormones is actually "a grand upheaval of the brain," says Barbara Strauch, a medical science editor and author of "The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids".
This upheaval affects everything from schoolwork and sleep patterns to teens' propensity for taking risks.
Risk-taking: Blame immature frontal lobes
All parents want their children to explore the world. But what if the family curfew has become a joke? What if a teenager exhibits behavior that not only worries an adult but also can be dangerous to the kid?
Ron Dahl, a pediatrician and child psychiatric researcher at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, says a desire for thrills and taking risks is a building block of adolescence. The frontal lobes help put the brakes on such behavior, but they're also one of the last areas of the brain to develop fully. Located right behind the forehead, the frontal lobes actually grow larger than adult size in puberty. But the process is far from complete; refinement of the frontal lobes can continue into the early 20s.
"This is a crucial stage of development," says Mel Levine, director of the University of North Carolina's clinical center for the study of development and learning, "because the frontal lobes enable a person to know where they're heading as opposed to having no idea of what the consequences will be."
In calm situations, teenagers can rationalize almost as well as adults. But stress can hijack what Dahl calls "hot cognition" and decision-making. The frontal lobes cannot cope.
Dahl points out that studies are far from complete, but he and other experts contend that higher levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine make teens hungry for stimulation, including risky behavior.
Academics: "Wow! It suddenly makes sense"
Besides the frontal lobes, other key areas of the brain are transformed during adolescence. The corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain, enlarges. The anterior cingulate gyrus, which helps us stay focused, matures, as do key areas in the cerebral cortex that recently have been linked to language development and spatial reasoning. Such development may explain why things will suddenly click for a struggling geometry student: The brain finally can make sense of the subject material.
Several experts contend that music, math and sports can help structure the brain faster and better than simply hanging out or watching television. "The adolescent brain exhibits a tremendous plasticity," Restak says. "Indeed, the adolescent's choices determine the quality of his brain."
Time: Teens really do need extra sleep
But even the best choices, inside or outside of the classroom, will do little good if a teen is too tired. Levine recommends that parents set up a daily schedule at home and stick to it. Instead of telling a teen he can watch television after he does his homework, try saying, "First, spend two hours every evening on brain work. After that, you can watch TV."
Early research indicates that too many timed deadlines, at school or at home, reward impulsive behavior and do little to accentuate the frontal lobes and develop other crucial areas of the teen brain.
Melatonin, an important brain chemical, can wreak havoc in an adolescent's world. Melatonin helps make us drowsy, and in teens it's secreted later at night. Sleep specialist Mary Carskadon, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, says such changes in melatonin production push teens to stay up later. Her surveys and field studies show that teens average 7 1/2 hours of sleep a night. She maintains that for brain development, nine hours should be the goal.
"Most teens are very sleep-deprived," Carskadon says. "That's when problems in the development of the frontal cortex and many of those synapses emerge. We are only now learning about the [effect] of sleep on learning and memory. And what's more important during adolescence than learning and memory?"
Parents: You can help new brain cells connect
In childhood, brain cells grow quickly, like new stalks on a plant. As adolescence accelerates, there's an overabundance of new connections in the brain. As teens mature, some connections are pruned away, increasing the brain's efficiency. The chance to help shape this pruning makes parents more crucial, not less.
"This is a sensitive time, when feelings are becoming linked with rational thought," Dahl says. "The stakes are very high, and parents need to feel that it's OK to be monitoring what their adolescents are doing."
When Strauch was researching her book, Primal Teen, she often brought her two teens along. As a result, she found herself more empathic.
"There's so much going in the brain, and it should give us hope," she says. "We should not really give up on any kid. They may be sitting in a lump and sleeping until noon and have pink hair, but there are all kinds of changes going on under that pink hair."
Tim Wendel, the father of one teenager, is the author of "The New Face of Baseball", a look at 100 years of Latino baseball players, to be published next month by HarperCollins.
Science
The teen brain
Surprise: It grows long past childhood. So chalk up some of that baffling behavior to neurobiology, not hormones.
By Tim Wendel
Until scientists began to employ MRI imaging a few years ago, the teenage brain was thought to be largely finished. After all, brain size usually doesn't change that much after childhood. Many assumed it only required fine-tuning in preparation for adulthood.
"Now we're finding out how wrong we were," says Richard Restak, a neuropsychiatrist and author of "The Secret Life of the Brain". "The teenage brain is a work in progress that we're only beginning to understand."
From the thickening and then thinning of gray matter to the development of the all-important frontal lobes, the brain undergoes dramatic change during adolescence. What parents once blamed on hormones is actually "a grand upheaval of the brain," says Barbara Strauch, a medical science editor and author of "The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids".
This upheaval affects everything from schoolwork and sleep patterns to teens' propensity for taking risks.
Risk-taking: Blame immature frontal lobes
All parents want their children to explore the world. But what if the family curfew has become a joke? What if a teenager exhibits behavior that not only worries an adult but also can be dangerous to the kid?
Ron Dahl, a pediatrician and child psychiatric researcher at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, says a desire for thrills and taking risks is a building block of adolescence. The frontal lobes help put the brakes on such behavior, but they're also one of the last areas of the brain to develop fully. Located right behind the forehead, the frontal lobes actually grow larger than adult size in puberty. But the process is far from complete; refinement of the frontal lobes can continue into the early 20s.
"This is a crucial stage of development," says Mel Levine, director of the University of North Carolina's clinical center for the study of development and learning, "because the frontal lobes enable a person to know where they're heading as opposed to having no idea of what the consequences will be."
In calm situations, teenagers can rationalize almost as well as adults. But stress can hijack what Dahl calls "hot cognition" and decision-making. The frontal lobes cannot cope.
Dahl points out that studies are far from complete, but he and other experts contend that higher levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine make teens hungry for stimulation, including risky behavior.
Academics: "Wow! It suddenly makes sense"
Besides the frontal lobes, other key areas of the brain are transformed during adolescence. The corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain, enlarges. The anterior cingulate gyrus, which helps us stay focused, matures, as do key areas in the cerebral cortex that recently have been linked to language development and spatial reasoning. Such development may explain why things will suddenly click for a struggling geometry student: The brain finally can make sense of the subject material.
Several experts contend that music, math and sports can help structure the brain faster and better than simply hanging out or watching television. "The adolescent brain exhibits a tremendous plasticity," Restak says. "Indeed, the adolescent's choices determine the quality of his brain."
Time: Teens really do need extra sleep
But even the best choices, inside or outside of the classroom, will do little good if a teen is too tired. Levine recommends that parents set up a daily schedule at home and stick to it. Instead of telling a teen he can watch television after he does his homework, try saying, "First, spend two hours every evening on brain work. After that, you can watch TV."
Early research indicates that too many timed deadlines, at school or at home, reward impulsive behavior and do little to accentuate the frontal lobes and develop other crucial areas of the teen brain.
Melatonin, an important brain chemical, can wreak havoc in an adolescent's world. Melatonin helps make us drowsy, and in teens it's secreted later at night. Sleep specialist Mary Carskadon, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, says such changes in melatonin production push teens to stay up later. Her surveys and field studies show that teens average 7 1/2 hours of sleep a night. She maintains that for brain development, nine hours should be the goal.
"Most teens are very sleep-deprived," Carskadon says. "That's when problems in the development of the frontal cortex and many of those synapses emerge. We are only now learning about the [effect] of sleep on learning and memory. And what's more important during adolescence than learning and memory?"
Parents: You can help new brain cells connect
In childhood, brain cells grow quickly, like new stalks on a plant. As adolescence accelerates, there's an overabundance of new connections in the brain. As teens mature, some connections are pruned away, increasing the brain's efficiency. The chance to help shape this pruning makes parents more crucial, not less.
"This is a sensitive time, when feelings are becoming linked with rational thought," Dahl says. "The stakes are very high, and parents need to feel that it's OK to be monitoring what their adolescents are doing."
When Strauch was researching her book, Primal Teen, she often brought her two teens along. As a result, she found herself more empathic.
"There's so much going in the brain, and it should give us hope," she says. "We should not really give up on any kid. They may be sitting in a lump and sleeping until noon and have pink hair, but there are all kinds of changes going on under that pink hair."
Tim Wendel, the father of one teenager, is the author of "The New Face of Baseball", a look at 100 years of Latino baseball players, to be published next month by HarperCollins.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
FACES OF THE LEFT
FEARLESS LEADER OF THE LEFT, MR. NARCISSIST
God help us, second in command?
Barney F....... Frank
Henry Nostril Waxman
Leader of the House! Pelosi!
Nancy Botox Pelosi, if she doesn't know that she is a clown, how can she run anything except her makeup!!!
Nancy Botox Pelosi, if she doesn't know that she is a clown, how can she run anything except her makeup!!!
Can you smile for the camera?
Doddering Dodd
Teddy "splash" Kennedy
Dingy Harry Reid
Good old Charlie
Good old Charlie
Many of the liberals that I run into on a daily basis tell me that we need to change our way of life.
One of my customers supports no drilling, giving cash for clunkers and believes rock star prez labumba is helping the economy!
She thinks it would have been a lot worse if he had not stepped up to the plate to save us!!!.
Why do I not understand the way that their brains works? Why is their way of thinking so opposite of mine? I believe "smaller government" makes perfect sense. What makes them support bigger government? Why can't they see what these faces are doing to ruin our freedoms, our way of life? Are these faces that yo trust with the future of this once great country?
Do you know who your senator or representative is?
Do you care?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Do you want your child to be happy,smart, successful or good
I am not a regular listener to Dennis Prager, once in awhile, I tune in during commercials on my other talk shows. Somewhere around June 8 or 9th, Dennis taked about a survey. I only heard the end of it so I cannot tell you who did the survey or when, but the following were the some of the very profound questions asked.
If you could only choose one, would you most want your child to be happy, smart, successful or good?
So if your child got into an elite college by cheating, that would be ok if it made him happy?
If your child stole “starter money” and became a success in his new business, which made him very happy, would that be ok?
If your child was happy dealing drugs but was successful, had an IQ of 160, and very well educated would that be ok?
If you could only choose one, would you most want your child to be happy, smart, successful or good?
So if your child got into an elite college by cheating, that would be ok if it made him happy?
If your child stole “starter money” and became a success in his new business, which made him very happy, would that be ok?
If your child was happy dealing drugs but was successful, had an IQ of 160, and very well educated would that be ok?
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